In an attempt to impress a woman, a young man stages a party and invites a few of his friends, forgetting they are all self-obsessed schmucks, himself included.

FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage nightmare: stuck aboard a plane that's been taken over by a group of well-armed terrorists who threaten to detonate a nuclear weapon unless they receive a billion dollars